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While this may be an excellent decision, McCann is at a critical point of her career, and in order to keep herself on the main cards and enjoy the heavy promotion that she does, she will need to start returning to winning ways sooner rather than later. Her last two performances have been extremel...
The strawweight division is one of the most entertaining divisions in the UFC today. The last UFC event which went on normally with a full crowd in attendance saw champion Zhang Weili and challenger Joanna Jedrzejczyk put on an all time classic fight. It was easily the best fight at UFC 248. It ...
ONE Championship has announced the main event of ONE: HEART OF A LION, which is set for November 9 live from the Singapore Indoor Stadium. ONE Women’s Strawweight Champion, “The Panda” Xiong Jing Nan will defend her title against ONE Women’s Aromweight Champion, “Unstoppable” Angela Lee. Also on ...
Invicta FC has added depth to their strawweight division with the addition of Japanese-Ace Kanako Murata. The news was confirmed on Thursday. With a stellar mixed martial arts record of 8-1, Kanako Murata has shown signs of brilliance throughout her nine-fight MMA run. As a world-class female wre...
As a somewhat late addition to the upcoming RIZIN 13 press conference, it has been revealed that three more stars join the line-up. Pancrase Strawweight Champion; Mitsuhisa Sunabe, Kai Asakura, and DEEP Strawweight Champion; Haruo Ochi will all be present at the event. This according the always r...
On September 22, the Jakarta Convention Center will once again play host to another spectacular ONE card. Yoshitaka Naito of Japan will defend his strawweight title against Joshua Pacio of the Philippines in the main event of ONE: Conquest Of Heroes. Yoshitaka Naito vs. Joshua Pacio II Reigning, ...
XIONG JING NAN DEFENDS ONE WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST LAURA BALIN IN MACAU, CHINA ****** ADRIANO MORAES AND GEJE EUSTAQUIO SET TO UNIFY FLYWEIGHT TITLES IN EPIC REMATCH Two title fights top ONE Championship: Pinnacle of Power The largest global sports media property in Asian h...
The UFC is ready to kick off fight week for what is set to be one of the best PPV events of the year to date in the form of UFC 223 on April 7, 2018. This incredible fight card includes a co-main event title fight between the current women’s Strawweight champion Rose Namajunas (7-3 […]
Ashley Cummins nearly reached the UFC, a goal she has been chasing for a decade. Most fighters view it as the top of the MMA mountain. Cummins came closer than she ever had when she attempted to compete on Season 23 of The Ultimate Fighter. She fought Lanchana Green at strawweight and lost via se...
UFC 218 was filled with special moments. There was the Fight of the Night war between Eddie Alvarez and Justin Gaethje. Francis Ngannou impressed in his first-round, one-punch destruction of Alistair Overeem. The night was concluded by Max Holloways‘s repeat dismantling of former Featherweight Ch...
Undefeated strawweight amateur prospect Kayla Hracho (4-0) is on the fifth floor of Florida Atlantic University’s Wimberly Library in Boca Raton, FL, trying to explain to a woman what an MMA fighter does. Hracho is taking part in the Human Library event, where people act as Human Books that can b...
Rose Namajunas came in as a +400 underdog against the long reigning champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Namajunas KO’s Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the second round.
The first of three title fights slated for mega-card UFC 217 will go down in the strawweight division. Joanna Jedrzejczyk will look to tie Ronda Rousey’s UFC title defense record for women’s MMA at six. In order to do so, she’ll have to defeat “Thug” Rose Namajunas. How They Got Here Jedrzejczyk...
March 25 will be a special day for Ashley Cummins for a plethora of reasons. Not only will she make her long-awaited return to the cage when she takes on Amber Brown at Invicta FC 22, but she’ll do it at a new weight class in front of her friends, family and teammates. Cummins has […]
It didn’t take long for Jewels & Smackgirl veteran Seo Hee Ham to be picked up following her release from the UFC. “Hamderlei Silva” will head back to ROAD FC. The signing was announced via the ROAD FC website. Regarding the signing, Ham had this to say; “I traveled but I’m back to my home. […]
The UFC added two of the best strawweights on the planet, Claudia Gadelha and Karolina Kowalkiewicz, to UFC 212, the promotion announced on Monday via Twitter. Both Gadelha (14-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) and Kowalkiewicz (10-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) have lost to only one woman in their entire professional mixed mart...